USAA · 22 hours ago
Application and Testing Infrastructure Architect
San Antonio Home Office I
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$143K/yr - $274K/yr
10+ years expUSAA is committed to empowering its members to achieve financial security, and they are seeking an Application and Testing Infrastructure Architect. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to define architecture standards and provide leadership in technology decisions within the application testing infrastructure domain.
BankingFinancial ServicesInsuranceVenture Capital
No H1B
Responsibilities
Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders to understand strategy, requirements, measures, risks and controls for a business function or IT domain
Utilizes expertise and research to create technology decisions with relevant architecture artifacts and proactively apply architecture thinking to conceive evolutionary strategies and roadmaps that can accelerate current capabilities for a business function or technology domain
Cultivates productive and trusted relationships with business and IT stakeholders, as well as engineering resources, to provide leadership and guidance to influence and shape priority, cost transparency and execution of architecture solutions and domain direction
Assess domain applications in collaboration with business and application owners to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and risks. Advise business owners of proposed courses of action
Defines and documents architecture standards for a technology domain to ensure architectural compliance of technology solutions. Use risk assessment methodologies to draft/evaluate and approve/reject waivers to architecture standards
Participates in activities that support the USAA technology ecosystem such as workstream planning, solution design reviews, code reviews, test case definition, and assistance in troubleshooting of Availability Command Center incidents to resolve complex production issues related to a technology domain
Provides professional and technical mentorship for new architects, engineers and IT community colleagues in an open, respectful, flexible and empathetic manner. Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability
Executes architecture practices and processes by properly creating and maintaining architecture domain documentation, ensuring timely completion of deliverables and suggesting enhancements
Establishes external relationships with contacts on industry organizations and government boards and vendors in the marketplace related to a business function or technology domain
Establishes a plan to gain external eminence by pursuing professional and industry technical certifications, presenting at conferences, publishing technical papers, contributing to open source, authoring patents, etc
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree
10 years of experience in the Information Technology field to include at least 2 years in a technical leadership role within IT
Experience in technology application development and/or infrastructure and operational implementation
Deep knowledge in a minimum of one technology domain (from an application, infrastructure, operations, scalability, availability, performance, people, process, and tooling perspective)
Demonstrated experience in explaining complex technology decisions to both technical and nontechnical audiences at all levels in the organization
Demonstrated experience effectively communicating and developing high trust relationships with frontline and second level management and stakeholders
Understanding and application of technical architecture standards, principles, and policies and knowledge of applicable regulations and risk management practices
Preferred
Strong command of at least one or more relevant programming languages such as Python, Java, GoLang, or JavaScript
Experience in integrating solutions into Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines with GitLab CI and other DevOps tooling
Understanding of container platforms such as OpenShift, EKS, AKS, and their life cycles
Expertise of accessibility, performance, load, stress, and security testing tooling/strategies, along with experience in relevant tools
Deep understanding of cloud platform enablement such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Ability to architect DevOps tooling integration to support large enterprise development and testing
Experience designing infrastructure applications for a large, complex, enterprise
Have a deep understanding of various automation development/testing tools and technologies
Hands-on experience with industry-standard automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, JUnit, Appium, PyTest, Jest, etc
Deep understanding and practical experience in testing software, APIs, messaging systems (Kafka), etc
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
401(k)
Pension
Life insurance
Parental benefits
Adoption assistance
Paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
Various wellness programs
Career path planning and continuing education
Company
USAA
USAA is a financial services company.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Julie McPeak
SVP, General Counsel Insurance
Waqas Durrani
Senior Vice President, General Counsel - Enterprise Shared Services
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